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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A fun guest post from my bestie mate Down Under, Kiersten.
Kiersten is the creative genius behind Lunch Punch, the coolest thing to happen to sandwiches since sliced bread! Kiersten shares with us how all the cool little joeys take their apples to school. :)

"A" is for an Aussie Apple

In Australia, some children take their apples to school like this. It's a simple way to keep an apple fresh but easy and fun to eat.

All you need?
- 1 juicy apple
- 1 clean, washed rubber band
- 1 knife ("that's not a knoife, this is a knoife!")...Sorry couldn't resist the Crocodile Dundee reference.

Cut your apple 4 times as shown. Be careful to cut far enough away from the core to avoid the seeds.

Then put it back together like a block puzzle.
Put the rubber band around the chubby apple's waist.

Kiersten, super star sandwich cutter queen of the universe, can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Well, not really on Twitter. She hasn't tweeted anything yet, but I'm sure she'll break down and chirp some fun tidbits sooner or later. :)

Cute idea! I use the apple corer slicer too but never thought of putting it back together!

Thank you for posting this and the link to the lunch punch, I just ordered the sandwishes and the critter cutter. I had ordered the easylunchboxes before I saw your post and am anxiously awaiting them. Oh and I put your button on my blog!

I haven't tried this fun trick yet, but keeping the apple sealed back up *should* keep it from browning. It's exposure to air that makes cut apples go brown. I haven't tried it yet, I can't find a rubberband in my house to save my life. If you have trouble with browning you can always dip the cut sides of apple in a little juice - anything with vitamin C works (ascorbic acid).

Chrisy - of course this wouldn't fit *inside* a bento box (it *would* fit in a Goodbyn though), but as a take-along snack it would be great! My kids always have a separate snack. If you have the ELB lunchbags to go with your ELB boxes you can carry the apple in there. :)

My Dad used to do this for the four of us, but he'd cut up two apples and two oranges, then switch the segments so we would each get two quarters of apple and two quareters of orange, and we called them Beach Balls. Obviously the orange juice kept the apple from going brown.